This mechanism allows us to meet Fly Kent, a black child who is preternaturally calm and wise beyond his years. After a lull, a body is fished from a river and the case heats up again. The interviewing and analyzing the assumed crime scene are done well nothing earth shattering, but the audience is definitely pulled along with the case as we get to know the principals, primarily Manon and her partner, DC Davy Walker.
Her father, Sir Ian Hind, is a physician to the royal family, thus upping the profile of, what we all know, would already have been a pretty high profile case. Presumed revolves around the suspected abduction of a lovely, wealthy, white Cambridge post-graduate named Edith Hind.
Steiner had an “…interest and intuitive understanding of the dynamics between people, ability to be alive to the complexities of their desires and their frailties, and commitment to exploring questions of justice and equality…” which animates her series. Steiner was a former journalist who lived with retinitis pigmentosa and succumbed, at the very premature age of 51, to brain cancer.
I stumbled across Susie Steiner, the author of the DS Manon Bradshaw series, when I read of her death, July 2nd, in the Guardian (and, by the way, this is an enjoyable obituary, if an obituary can be said to be ‘enjoyable’! ). Scandal – a very British scandal, stiff upper lip, what will the neighbors say?
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